Yuganov Konstantin/Shutterstock You haven’t experienced breathtaking home theater visuals until you’ve watched a movie or played a video game in HDR (High Dynamic Range). HDR is a display technology that uses metadata to help your TV optimize brightness, colors and contrast. Compared to standard dynamic range (SDR), HDR can provide a more vibrant and impactful image, but there are several HDR formats on the market. The leading format is HDR10, a video standard that uses static metadata to tell your TV how to display a movie, show, or video game.…
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Atari will pay up to $39.3 million to add Hipster Whale to its roster of mobile game studios. Hipster whale Atari takes over another game studio. He agreed to buy Hipster Whale, the developer of the Crossy Road series and Pac-Man 256. Atari will pay an initial $29.3 million in cash and stock. It will pay out up to $10 million more depending on Hipster Whale’s performance over the next few years. Studio co-founder Matt Hall will take a senior role at Atari and help oversee mobile game development. Atari said in a press release (PDF)…
Apple’s annual developer conference, WWDC, returns for 2026 next week, and the company has teased the event with a new slogan “All Systems Shine.” “All systems are glowing” is a pun on the phrase “all systems are working,” and it likely alludes to the new Siri design in iOS 27. A dedicated Siri app and a new “Search or Ask” feature in the iPhone’s Dynamic Island would have a dark color palette with bright elements, as seen in images leaked last week. Apple’s previous slogan for WWDC 2026 was “Coming soon.” This slogan and the event graphics also hint at…
Apple’s first foldable iPhone, known as the “iPhone Ultra,” will feature impressive vapor chamber cooling and launch in September despite production difficulties, a known leaker reported today. In a new Weibo post today, the leaker known as “Fixed Focus Digital” said the foldable iPhone’s pre-assembly manufacturing processes were facing pressure and the initial production ramp-up was proving difficult. The leaker added that prevailing speculation indicates that the original September launch schedule was being maintained, and indicated that more positive news was expected tomorrow. The leaker added that the device will feature vapor chamber (VC) cooling and that its thermal performance…
Amazon is now offering AirPods Pro 3 for $199.99down from $249.00. This matches the lowest price ever on the AirPods Pro 3, and it’s a deal that hasn’t been as frequent as the discounts on the AirPods 4 and AirPods Max 2. Note: Woozad is an affiliate partner with some of these providers. When you click on a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us operate the site. This model of AirPods Pro was launched in September 2025 and offers 2x better active noise cancellation than the previous generation, better audio quality, a…
Tulcarion/Getty Images Not long ago, owning a 75-inch flat screen seemed like a realistic ceiling in terms of screen size and display technology. These days, a 75-inch TV is actually one of the smaller sized options if you’re looking for a gargantuan 4K LED or OLED. Brands like Samsung, LG, Hisense and a few other manufacturers now offer TVs that are 100 inches or larger. If you have a large enough mount or wall space to work with, a 100-inch TV of your own might look pretty good. Researching and…
More AI and new hardware could be offered at Microsoft’s developer conference. Ethan Miller/Getty Images With Google I/O 2026 in the books, it’s now Microsoft’s turn to delight (or terrorize) the public with new AI features. The Microsoft Build 2026 developer conference kicks off on Tuesday, June 2 at 12:30 p.m. ET / 9:30 p.m. PT with a keynote address from CEO Satya Nadella. You can watch the keynote live via the Youtube stream embedded in this article or follow Woozad’s live blog as we react and recap the event as it happens. For even more…
ASUS is commemorating the 20th anniversary of its Republic of Gamers (ROG) sub-brand with a special edition of its ROG Xbox Ally Pro. It also comes bundled with a pair of ROG Xreal R1 Edition 20 Gaming AR glasses, so this will likely be a pretty expensive proposition. ASUS calls the ROG Xbox Ally X20 a “true collector’s item” as well as a high-powered handheld. To give it a premium feel, it comes with a translucent black plastic chassis that shows off the processor and cooling system, along with gold accents. The Nebula HDR OLED display offers a 0.2ms response…
Apple’s Car Keys feature appears to be available on future vehicles made by Indian manufacturer Mahindra, based on code changes discovered by Woozad in the backend of Apple’s Wallet app. Car Keys allows an iPhone or Apple Watch with NFC capabilities to unlock a vehicle through the Wallet app. A digital version of a car key is stored in Wallet and unlocking can be done simply by holding an Apple Watch or iPhone near the NFC reader of a compatible vehicle. Mahindra already supports Samsung Wallet’s digital car key functionality for Galaxy devices, but it does not yet offer native…
Apple is expected to launch its first foldable iPhone later this year. Rumors suggest that the “iPhone Ultra” will come in two color options, and a leaker shared an image today that allegedly shows one of them. Posted on Weibo by the Chinese leaker known as Ice Universe, the image reportedly offers a first look at Apple’s foldable in white. The device is believed to have entered mass production early, but the model shown is likely a mannequin. Regardless, another leaker, Instant Digital, has said that white is so far the only “confirmed” finish the device will be available in.…